The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-05-19
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items of Interest From Both Sides
of the Divide.

VI lne OVIue.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
Court convened at Virginia City yester.
day.
Measles among the children at Glen
dale.
The Deer Lodge school term will end
in two weeks.
The lot-jumping craze seems to be dy-
ing out in Helena.
The Livingston coke and coal company
are furnishing the bulk OF coke used at
the Wickes reduction works.
The officers of the Bozeman land Office
have been notified that there will be no
money with which to pay their salaries
for an indefinite time.
The furnaces of the United States
assay Office at Helena are being fitted up
to burn gas, which will be much cheaper
and also much more rapid in its action.
| A mysterious corps OF railroad engi-
neers are cavOrting around between Boze-
man and the hills, and along the Cherry
Creek mining district. They are extreme
| ly reticent and no one seems to know
what they are up to.
On Saturday northern bound freight
on the Utah & Northern between Spring
Hill and RedRock was partially wrecked.
Some Indians who were on the train were
more or less bruised, one squaw and one
buck being seriously injured.
Esler, Lysinger & Co. contemplate fur
nishing private houses in Helena with
electric lights. They will be of the
small incandescent kind designed to
take the place of gas. They will also put
in electric motors where desired.
I Ths g. I g seeh Eagt raBdh aahd 5R d#t at the eers9R RG
and about mile and a half west of the
N. P. r. R. depot at Helena has been
bought by syndicate of Helena and
New York men represented by II. W.
Child, for speculative purposes.
On Saturday the articles of incorpora-
ton of the Little Jennie Mining COM
pany were fled with Secretary Webb.
The incorporators are S. T. Hauser, T. H.
Kleinschmidt, E. w. Knight, R. S. Hale,
G. K. Wells and r. w. Toole. The capt.
tai stock is $1,OOO,O00, in shares of SIS.
The Great Falls Water Power and
Townsite company has formally incor-
porated, with G. A. Broadwater, Paris
Gibson and L. G. Phelps as the .incorpor-
ators. The capital is $4,000 in shares OF
800. The objects of the company are to
buy and sell land and to improve, utilize
and sell the water power at the falls.
The condition of Tommy Healey, of
Sun River, who was SO seriously injured
last week, having been kicked by his
horse, is still very precarious. He has
not as yet recovered consciousness since
the accident. DR.. Newman, who has
charge of his case, says he has but one
chance out of ten to recover.
The body of an unknown man was
found near the railroad track about four
miles north of Melrose by railroad work.
men last Thursday. There we're no marks
of violence on the body and nothing was
found to indicate his identity. It is sup
posed that he wandered into the brush
during the recent cold snap and died
from exposure.
James Phillips, Dennis Doyle and VIII
liam Burton, aged Is, II and 10 respec-
lively, stole a saddle from the Bonner
Mercantile company in Butte and then
skipped for Anaconda. They wanted a
saddle because their leader stole horse
sometime ago and rode it to Philipsburg,
from where he wrote to them to procure
a saddle and join him for the purpose Of
becoming glorious cowboys.
The surveying corps of the Rocky Fork
& Cooke City railroad, which started out
of Park City on March %, have about
completed their labor. Persons
VIII have come over the contem-
plated line state that but little grading
will be necessary, and they look forward
to an early completion, which will place
some very fine anthracite coal on our
markets. Enterprise.
John NJ. Sweeney, for many years man.
ager of T. G. Powers business, with
headquarters in Helena, died of con-
sumption on May 10. He was 46 years OF
age and had been resident of Montana